CS 844b - Advanced Topics in Medical Imaging

The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
Department of Computer Science

CS 844b - Advanced Topics in Medical Imaging
Winter (January -- April) 2007

(http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/elsakka/courses.dir/2007.M01.M04.CS844b/index.html)

A: Instructor:

Professor Mahmoud El-Sakka
Middlesex College, Room 419
Phone: 661-2111 x86996
Email: elsakka <at> csd.uwo.ca
Office hours: Thursday from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm

B: TA:

None

C: Lectures:

Time: Thursday 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Place: Middlesex College, Room 320

D: Weekly Schedule

	10:30 - 12:30	12:30 - 2:30
Monday	.	.
Tuesday	.	.
Wednesday	.	.
Thursday	Instructor office hours	LECTURE
Friday	.	.

E: Course Description:

The course normally addresses medical image processing/manipulation research, with focusing on one modality per year, where issues related to volume representation, registration, and segmentation will be discussed in depth.

This is a seminar/research course.

F: Topics to be covered during the course include, but not limited to:

Enhancing 3D carotid artery ultrasound images
Detecting plaques in 3D carotid artery ultrasound images

G: Prerequisites:

It is expected that whoever will attend this course already have the knowledge about digital image processing and medical images.

The University said:

Students are responsible for ensuring that they have either the prerequisites for this course, or a written special permission from their Dean to enroll in.
If a student does not have the course prerequisites, and has not been granted a special permission to take the course by the department, it is his/her best interest to drop the course well before the end of the add/drop period.
If a student is not eligible for a course, he/she may be removed from it at any time, and will receive no adjustment to his/her fees. These decisions can not be appealed. Lack of prerequisites may not be used as the basis of appeal.
Students prompt attention to this matter will not only help protect their record, but will ensure that spaces become available for students who require the course in question for graduation.

H: Textbook:

There is no text book for this course.

I: Course Website:

The CS844b website is at

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/elsakka/courses.dir/2007.M01.M04.CS844b/index.html

Class information will be posted on this website. You are responsible for reading this information frequently.

J: Computing Facilities

Each student will be given an account on the Computer Science Department senior undergraduate computing facility, GAUL. In accepting the GAUL account, a student agrees to abide by the department's Rules of Ethical Conduct.

Note that: After-hours access to certain Computer Science lab rooms is by student card. If a student card is lost, a replacement card will not automatically open these lab rooms. In this case, the student must bring the new card to a member of the Systems Group in Middlesex College Room 346 to activate it.

K: Email Contact

Occasionally, email messages may be sent to the whole class, or to students individually. You must make sure that you read your email on a frequent and regular basis, or have it forwarded to an alternative email address if you prefer to read it there.

However, you should note that email at ITS (your UWO account) and other email providers such as hotmail.com or yahoo.com may have quotas or limits on the amount of space they can use. If you let your email accumulate there, your mailbox may fill up and you may lose important emails. Losing email that you have forwarded to an alternative email address is not an excuse for not knowing about the information that was sent.

L: Plagiarism

Plagiarism: Students must write their essays and assignments in their own words. Whenever students take an idea, or a passage from another author, they must acknowledge their debt both by using quotation marks where appropriate and by proper referencing such as footnotes or citations. Plagiarism is a major academic offence (see Scholastic Offence Policy in the Western Academic Calendar).
Independent work is required on each Assignment. You may discuss approaches to problems among each other. However, the actual details of the work (assignment coding, answers to concept questions, etc.) must be an individual effort.
Assignments that are judged to be the result of academic dishonesty will, for the student's first offence, be given a mark of zero with an additional penalty equal to the weight of the assignment also being applied.
Students are responsible for reading and respecting the Computer Science Department's policy on Scholastic Offences and Rules of Ethical Conduct.

M: Project and Seminar/Presentation

Each student will be assigned a topic, where he/she will be asked to
- Present two to three in-class seminar/presentations, and
- Complete a course project in the topic
The topics for both seminars and projects must first be discussed with, and approved by, the instructor.

N: Grading:

60 marks: In class presentations
10 marks: participation and involvement in the discussions
30 marks: Project report

The University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada Department of Computer Science